The other two signatories Minni Arkou Minnawi as a Deputy Chairman of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi head of the National Umma Party are already in exile in Uganda and Egypt respectively (AC Vol 55 No 23 Security leaks and party splits)...
He became transitional Minister of Peace Reconciliation and Elections preparing for the 1986 polls which were widely judged free and fair and which brought El Sadig el Mahdi to office as Prime Minister...
It doesn't refer to the regime's Islamist ideology and that points to a division between the secularists who want a clear separation of religion and state and their opponents within the opposition such as El Sadig el Mahdi...
National Umma Party leader El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi told an on-the-record meeting at Chatham House on 29 October that the authenticity of the leaked documents was 'not at issue' a message he repeated in Arabic and English at several meetings during his trip to Britain...
El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi...
The agenda lists: 'The Paris Declaration [between El Sadig el Mahdi and the SRF] and the impact of the SRF statement [presumably the memorandum of understanding signed with Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani and Ahmed Saad Omer (AC Vol 55 No 18 Opposition beams Khartoum glowers)]; Radical and moderate trends in regards to Shiite belief activities in Sudan; President Mbeki's role and Sudanese issues; Elections National Dialogue and peace negotiations – The Priority; New Sudan project and its impact on the national security and economic activity'...
The securocrats are furious with El Sadig el Mahdi...
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The reason that the SRF and El Sadig el Mahdi signed a different document from the Khartoum delegates is that the NCP does not recognise the SRF (which includes the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North Darfur groups and others) as a single entity...
El Sadig aloneNational Umma Party leader El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi is now virtually alone in his ambivalence on the Dialogue and many other issues...
Parties which joined the dialogue and then suspended participation• Umma Party: El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi Sara Nugdallah; • Reform Now: Ghazi Salah el Din formed December 2013 after he lost battle for Sudan Islamic Movement leadership in November 2012...
April 1986: elections; El Sadig el Mahdi becomes Premier...
The RSF are controlled by the security services so this infuriated the army and triggered the arrest of former Prime Minister El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi who pointed out that the regime was in breach of the constitution...
Field Marshal Omer promised a premiership or even the presidency to Colonel Abdel Rahman el Sadig el Mahdi Presidential Assistant security officer and son of Umma leader El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi we understand...
The NCF includes El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi’s National Umma Party and the Sudan Communist Party (SCP) while the SRF includes the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLM/A-N) the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the two factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur and Minni Arkou Minnawi (AC Vol 53 No 18 Politics over oil)...
